Web Picks

Ria's Web Picks

KnowPlay? When opened, this looks like a Google search engine. It's MUCH more! Select the headings at the top to get stock information, reference help, a "people finder," a recipe finder, a product finder and more! It also does reverse lookups for e-mail addresses, phone numbers and addresses. Go to http://www.kplay.cc.

findtutorials Have a question about a program for which you just can't find an answer? This site has tutorials for many popular programs. Check out http://tutorials.findtutorials.com.

Rebecca's Web Picks

Book-Pop, created by children's book author Stephen Cosgrove, is a free site that includes books that can be read online, authors reading their own books online, and "Web-Pop Printers" that allow you to print books to be read offline. Go to http://www.web-pop.com/bookpopchooser.html.

The abcteach Web site includes free "printables" for teachers and parents to use, including basic activities, thematic units, shape books, games and puzzles, research and report forms and helps, babysitting and daycare pages, helpful portfolio pages, etc. Check out http://www.abcteach.com/.

Help your high school students become savvy consumers at Consumer Jungle. Find free classroom materials, too. Go to http://www.consumerjungle.org/